I've owned both CJ's and Black Dogs racks. They're both great looking and work as advertised. I wish Black Dog still offered the ole " Large ' version of his rack. The one that ran about 4" along the side of the pillion area. Hurt like hell when you cracked your knee on it whilst swinging a leg over, but the tradeoff was you could stack a ton o shite on it. Thing was the greatest impromptu kitchen table ever!!!

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We still make our "large" rear rack but now we have increased the size of the perimeter holes and pre-drilled it for a Rotopax mount.

I'm on my sixth LC8 powered bike and this is the best Rack I've ever had. Mind this was prior to them there Motopaki or whatever they call them fancy gas cans, or Warn winch mounts. Anybody remember who made these? I thought it was Black Dog as I had one of his skid plates on this bike at the time.

Just a point of clarification - our rear racks are 1/4" thick (approx 8mm), not 6mm as stated in the previous post.

Kurt

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Kurt I don't claim to be an engineer or a maths whizz but I make a 1/4" to be 6.35mm? Which is a nominal difference over the 6mm of CJ's rack when compared to saying something is 25% thicker, one could even think there was a little 'licence' being used to push sales.
Both seem like good products (so I know the manufacturing tolerances aren't that far out of whack)

Kurt I don't claim to be an engineer or a maths whizz but I make a 1/4" to be 6.35mm? Which is a nominal difference over the 6mm of CJ's rack when compared to saying something is 25% thicker, one could even think there was a little 'licence' being used to push sales.
Both seem like good products (so I know the manufacturing tolerances aren't that far out of whack)

I have a CJ rack and the slots on the edge are to narrow for the plastic straps of most luggage to slide thru. The rack is very good otherwise

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I went out last night and sipped a beer and took another stab at mounting my bags to the CJ Rack and found it really was not an issue with the size of the slots at all. It worked out great and I have put 1000 rounds of 5.65 ammo and a new AR 15 in a box on the rack and it worked great, it is very solid!. The guy at the gun shop took a picture, he said it was the only time he ever had anyone ride off with a rig like mine.